Jacoby of the Globe: Border Fence Like Berlin Wall

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[N. Theknow]

Two bad analogies

Border Fence - Berlin Wall

Jeff Jacoby - Intelligent Lifeform

[RightWhale]

Thought this might be about Jacobians or Jacobeans. Too much to ask.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Jacoby forgets the Berlin Wall was constructed to keep people in, not out. A wall on our border with Mexico would be constructed to keep people out, not in. A very poor analogy from someone who is usually a well-thought-out author.

[Dante3]

Berlin wall was to keep people from fleeing.
The proposed US wall is to keep terrorists and other scum from invading us.
A huge difference.

[rmlew]

Jeff Jacoby is a neoconservative.
He also views immigration emotionally identifying with the outsider.

[MEGoody]

A border fence is not like the Berlin wall. Talk about disingenous. . .

[Joe Boucher]

I figure just an ignorant sanctimonious fool.

[Gideon T. Reader]

Fortunately I checked your bio before I got the napalm ready.
Nonconservative is a regularly used code word for the dreaded: JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSS!!!!
Whose Learned Elder of Zion make Don Corleone, the CFR and the Bilderburgers look like pikers.
I am not sure that in the strictest political atmosphere that Jacoby is in fact a conservative or any sort, paleo or neo.
I have read his stuff casually and do not find him to be of a particular conservative bent.

I am glad I did not flame you. I don't need any more ball bat bearing villains waiting in the bushes, so to speak.

[Dane]

Well, my tagline has been saying the same quote for over a year.

[windsorknot]

What’s to worry about, Jeff. At the current rate, the sun will be a white dwarf before the border fence is completed.